More context: Franzi studied #structure-#stability relations in #competition #networks, using #bryozoan assemblages as study systems. She could show that #hierarchy mitigates network #instability by keeping self-reinforcing #feedback relatively weak.
Competitive hierarchies between species in bryozoan assemblages are shown to mitigate network instability by keeping short and long feedback loops weak.
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"In an uncertain economy, resilience isn't built alone. It’s built together." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I've long shared this quote on stage: "If I have an idea and you have an idea, we have two ideas. If we share those ideas, we have a movement."
That's the power of collaboration - something that is one of the most important hidden assets of any organization.
And, you know what I am going to say - in an economic downturn, this becomes more important than ever before. It becomes a battle of collaboration vs. isolation, with a simple reality that while crises make teams turn inward, their outward connection creates resilience.
Organizations that build stronger networks during downturns emerge stronger, faster, and future-ready.
Why is that? Ideas are currency, fuel for recovery, and the more ideas flow, the more collaborative thinking flows. That's why in volatility, connection beats isolation. And yet, economic volatility often triggers a dangerous instinct: retreat. Organizations turn inward, teams break into silos, and collaboration shrinks - and as a result, creativity suffocates and the idea factory slows down or worse, stops.
But if history has shown us anything, it’s this: organizations that lean outward—toward partnerships, extended idea ecosystems, and shared ideas—are the ones that not only survive uncertainty but surge ahead when recovery comes.
The fact is that isolation fractures resilience. Collaboration builds it. So the most important thing you can be doing right now is to build your collaborative spirit.
#Collaboration #Resilience #Innovation #Ideas #Partnership #Networks #Connection #Growth #Adaptation #future
Ever needed to simplify street networks? I did. And it is a pain. So we joined forces with @anavybor and @JamesGaboardi and wrote an algorithm that does that for us. And can do for you, as it is available as a Python package called `neatnet`.
Here's a short blog about it - https://martinfleischmann.net/simplification-of-street-networks/
And here's, not so short preprint - https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198
But you probably want the package. That is here - https://uscuni.org/neatnet.
Happy coding!
I have been working with street networks for a long time. My first analysis will date probably back to 2017 or so. Most of those focused on the same aspect - understanding the morphology. Yet, practically none of the networks I was able to obtain reflected morphology directly. Rather, they captured transportation networks, with all the detailed intersections, every tiny roundabout, slipway, double carriageway, and so on. Which is pretty annoying when you are interested in a representation of space, not of traffic lines.
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